College Oaks Elementary School

College Oaks Elementary School is one of the small elementary schools in Lake Charles, Louisiana, part of Calcasieu Parish, with 278 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so College Oaks Elementary School sits 39% below that benchmark.

Within Calcasieu Parish, which oversees 56 schools and 27,851 students, College Oaks Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, College Oaks Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 18% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting College Oaks Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), College Oaks Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Calcasieu Parish put median household earnings sit near $67,564, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. College Oaks Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Calcasieu Parish (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students).

Nearest neighbor: T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, College Oaks Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

College Oaks Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. College Oaks Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 301 (now 278). The Black share of enrollment expanded from 60% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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